The Drawing Center, NYC, Benefit Auction 2024

September 26 -30, 2024

This year's benefit auction brings together 35 artists, curators, and art lovers from The Drawing Center's community to examine why we are drawn to some artworks over others. Each guest curator will present a selection of five or more works on paper by artists they admire.

Works will be on view from Thursday, September 26 through Monday, September 30, and will be available for purchase through a silent auction benefiting The Drawing Center and participating artists.

Curators: Hoor Al Qasimi, Hilton Als, Rebecca Brickman, Lauren Cornell, Matthew Deleget, Rebecca DiGiovanna, Jarrett Earnest, Marty Eisenberg, Jack Eisenberg, Peter Eleey, Gary Garrels, Claire Gilman, Alexander Gorlizki, Matthew Higgs, Laura Hoptman, Anthony Huberman, Priscila Hudgins, KAWS, Randy Kennedy, Christopher Y. Lew, Bob Nickas, Linda Norden, Adam Pendleton, Olivia Shao, Jack Shear, Tiffany Shi, Rirkrit Tiravanija, Barbara Toll, Julia Trotta, Gee Wesley, Linda Yablonsky, John Yau, Lynn Zelevansky

The Drawing Center

Quietly Dispelling the Dark

Colm Tóibín selects from the Arts Council Collection

September 20, 2024 - January 19, 2025

VISUAL is pleased to present Quietly Dispelling the Dark, a selection of work drawn from the Arts Council Collection. The works in this exhibition have been selected by writer Colm Tóibín, in his role as Laureate for Irish Fiction. A text by Tóibín accompanies this exhibition and will be available on the VISUAL website and in the gallery, along with a map which will allow the viewer to identify particular works.

Artists included in the exhibition are:

Michael Coleman, Maud Cotter, Mary Farl Powers, Fergus Feehily, Marie Foley, Gerda Fromel, Sarah Iremonger, Brenda Kelliher, Cecil King, Áine Mac Giolla Bhríde, TJ Maher, Mary McIntyre, Dennis McNulty, Julie Merriman, Anthony O'Carroll, Paul O'Keeffe, Michael Warren

Colm Tóibín is the author of eleven novels, including The Master, Brooklyn, The Magician and Long Island, and two collections of short stories and many works of non-fiction. He has been three times shortlisted for the Booker Prize. In 2021 he was awarded the David Cohen Prize for Literature. Tóibín was appointed the Laureate for Irish Fiction 2022-2024. The Laureate for Irish Fiction is an initiative of the Arts Council of Ireland.

Tóibín will deliver the Laureate for Irish Fiction Annual Lecture 2024 in VISUAL on Sunday 3 November.

VISUAL

Colm Tóibín

Arts Council of Ireland

A. W. book with 41/42, Cornwall, Sold Out

A.W.

Fergus Feehily has in recent years shown a certain reticence to in any sense explain his work and A.W., his new publication for 41/42, is no different. The publication was made over just a couple of weeks in early 2023, and includes paper works made by Feehily in the last couple of years, images from the artist’s collection, and makes reference to the artist Alfred Wallis, who lived in St Ives, Cornwall.

Fergus Feehily is an artist living in Berlin, Germany.

28 pages

14 x 20 cm b/w booklet

29.7 x 42 cm 2-sided colour sheet

First Edition of 30

2023

41/42

Zolo Press, Printed Matter

Now available at Printed Matter. NYC, Zolo Press Mexico City/Brussels monograph Fergus Feehily.

Oil, carpet tacks, acrylic, gesso, gouache, twigs, the occasional spray paint, pencil, dabs of watercolour, found photographs, found frames, bandages, a paper bag or two, screws, aluminium foil, sweet wrappers, scrap wood. The marginal meets in the paintings of Fergus Feehily (1968, Dublin, Ireland), paintings that themselves stand at the periphery of contemporary painterly conventions - Whose "subtle activity," as Martin Herbert observes, "Is On Its Way Somewhere Else, Drifting Out Of View." This book is the most comprehensive monograph on the artist to date. It brings into view more than one-hundred works made over more than 15 years alongside clippings, notes, and research material from the artist's archive as well as exhibitions staged from Aachen to Mexico City to Tokyo. Essays by Martin Herbert, curator Chris Sharp, and artist Sarah Braman celebrate Feehily's reminder of, as writes the latter, "the joy of just looking".

Printed Matter

Zolo Press

Winter Solstice 2023

As the year draws to a close, here are some notes on things that struck me this year, it is not comprehensive, there were many more, but they offer a flavour of the year.

Some highlights 2023: publishing with Zolo Press and the subsequent book launch at La Maison de Rendez-vous, Brussels; Loren Connors and Alan Licht at London’s Café Oto, Mike Nelson, the Hayward Gallery, Steve McQueen at the Serpentine  and Souls Grown Deep at the Royal Academy, London, in a memorable two days of looking and listening with an old friend; Richard Gorman at the Hugh Lane, Dublin; seeing the Japanese band Boris playing the Button Factory, Dublin with another old friend visiting from NYC; Berlin’s lakes; bardskull by Martin Shaw; Taskmaster; Martin Wong, KW, Berlin; the Dead C’s extraordinary 3-day residency at Café Oto, London; Moki Cherry, ICA, London; reading Ursula K. Le Guin; Evan Parker’s beautiful solo concert at St. Marien Wallfahrtskirche in Weidingen; visiting Newgrange in the sun and Glendalough in torrential rain; American Magus Harry Smith: A Modern Alchemist, edited by Paola Igliori; seeing many old friends turn out for the opening of Fronts/Backs at Complex, Dublin; Genesis P-Orridge’s Nonbinary: A Memoir; eating pizza in the open air in Weidingen; swimming at Dollymount Strand; a boozy lunch with my wife at Dublin’s Dolce Sicily; visiting Stoney Road Press;  Isa Genzken at Die Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin;  Backlisted podcast; Brian Maguire at Kerlin Gallery, Dublin; Richard Thompson’s memoir Beeswing: Finding my own voice; watching old films - including Harvey and Close Encounters; John Szwed’s  Cosmic Scholar: The Life and Times of Harry Smith; Miroslav Tichý’s drawings at Kewenig, Berlin; St. George’s Bookshop in Prenzlauer Berg; multiple visits to the Humboldt Forum; Alan Moore’s From Hell; Algernon Blackwood’s weird ghost stories; ice cream from Rosa Canina, Berlin; Merlin James at Kunstsaele, Berlin; eating at Smartdeli, also, unsurprisingly in Berlin; Sway of the Verses’ insightful radio shows focused on Raga and Tala based music on both NTS and Balamii; visiting the David Parr House; Blank Forms beautiful monograph on Curtis Cuffie; drinking Guinness in Toner’s snug, Dublin; Nivhek at Silent Green, Berlin; A. S. Byatt’s On the Conjugal Angel; Peter Halley, Mudam, Luxembourg; Lin May Saeed’s poignant posthumous exhibition The Snow Falls Slowly in Paradise at Berlin’s Georg Kolbe Museum; the Thurston Moore Band at Festsaal Kreuzberg, Berlin; Hervé Guibert’s beautiful photographs at KW, Berlin; seeing Cecilia Bullo’s show open at the RHA, Dublin after many conversations in the lead up; listening to the music of Meredith Monk throughout the year; watching John Rogers’ films on YouTube, discovering W. Somerset Maugham’s The Moon and Sixpence; to my surprise, listening to  Donovan’s I am the Shaman and watching my son devour manga. Lowlights: the destruction of much of the artist David Farrell’s archive in Italy, being ghosted by people in positions of power, hypocrisy, war and hatred.

Zolo Press

David Farrell

Zolo Press at Dublin Art Book Fair, 2023

December 7- 17, 2023

Dublin Art Book Fair, Ireland’s leading art book fair and centre for artist books, presents its thirteenth edition. Taking place in Temple Bar Gallery + Studios over ten days, DABF champions small, creative independent publishers, and both Irish and international artist books. Within this mix, over 500 newly published and unusual publications on art, design, visual culture, philosophy, architecture, select fiction and poetry will feature alongside a special selection of nominated books by Guest Curator Wendy Erskine.

Wendy Erskine's theme Polyphonic, is celebrated further through a programme of talks, readings, workshops, book events and participatory events. Interested in the innumerable viewpoints, stories or perspectives that can originate from a single source, Erskine’s theme celebrates the creation of artwork that brings multiple voices together.

Erskine writes, "multiple voices; multiple narratives; multiple perspectives: the polyphonic. Whether it’s simultaneous or sequenced, whether it’s in visual art, text or sound, let’s celebrate polyphony in all its complexity and contrariness. Let’s explore this non-hierarchical, democratic mode which allows for plurality of expression and response. The polyphonic, a challenge to the controlling, totalising ‘I'."

Temple Bar Gallery + Studios

Zolo Press

Zolo Press at Tokyo Art Book Fair, 2023

23 - 26 November, 2023

The new monograph, on Fergus Feehily, Zolo Press will be available, amongst many other publications including Gabriel Orozco, Diario de Plantas, 2023, Bárbara Sánchez-Kane, New Lexicons for Embodiment, 2023 and Doug Aitken, Mirage, 2023.

Tokyo Art Book Fair started in 2009; the first book fair in Japan to specialize in art publications.

Held annually, it gathers independent publishers, gallery presses, bookshops as well as individual artists and groups. The fair has seen constant growth in its scale and content over the years, and the event now gathers more than 350 participants from Japan and abroad and attracts more than 20,000 visitors every year.

At the fair, visitors can communicate with and buy publications directly from hundreds of publishers and artists who create unique and innovative art publications; they can also enjoy various events including special exhibitions, talks/panel discussions and film screenings. As the biggest of its kind in Asia,Tokyo Art Book Fair aims to champion and lead art publishing culture in the region, and create the ideal opportunity for visitors to experience the ever evolving, vibrant arena of arts publishing.

Tokyo Art Book Fair

Zolo Press

Misako & Rosen

Misako & Rosen at Tokyo Art Book Fair, 2023

23 - 26 November, 2023

The new monograph, on Fergus Feehily, published by Zolo Press will be availible, amongst many other publications by the gallery and gallery artists.

Tokyo Art Book Fair started in 2009; the first book fair in Japan to specialize in art publications.

Held annually, it gathers independent publishers, gallery presses, bookshops as well as individual artists and groups. The fair has seen constant growth in its scale and content over the years, and the event now gathers more than 350 participants from Japan and abroad and attracts more than 20,000 visitors every year.

At the fair, visitors can communicate with and buy publications directly from hundreds of publishers and artists who create unique and innovative art publications; they can also enjoy various events including special exhibitions, talks/panel discussions and film screenings. As the biggest of its kind in Asia,Tokyo Art Book Fair aims to champion and lead art publishing culture in the region, and create the ideal opportunity for visitors to experience the ever evolving, vibrant arena of arts publishing.

Tokyo Art Book Fair

Misako & Rosen

Irish Arts Review

Autumn 2023

Volume 40. No. 3

Seán Kissane, Curator of Exhibitions at IMMA reviews the recent Zolo Press monograph, Fergus Feehily, 2023.

“Fergus Feehily (born 1968, Dublin), makes art through constant experimentation. He challenges conventional notions of what a painting or installation might be, with materials that often include scraps of wallpaper or fabric, using erratic brushstrokes. This artist’s book holds roughly fifteen years of Feehily’s practice. It is reticent about explaining the work. The three essays included are not quite an afterthought, but they only occupy 7 pages out of 230, emphasising how this is a book about images, not words.”

Irish Arts Review

Seán Kissane

IMMA

Zolo Press at Printed Matter’s 2023 LA Art Book Fair

Printed Matter LA Art Book Fair

10 - 13 August, 2023

The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA

152 N Central Ave, Los Angeles, CA 90012

This August, Printed Matter’s LA Art Book Fair (LAABF) returns to Los Angeles—the first time back since 2019! LAABF 2023 is taking place August 10–13 at The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA in the Little Tokyo neighborhood of downtown Los Angeles.

LAABF 2023 will feature more than 300 international exhibitors, including artists and collectives, small presses, institutions, galleries, antiquarian booksellers, and distributors. This year’s Fair will forefront artists’ books from Latin America and Asia-Pacific, feature a newly commissioned exhibition and mural, and highlight LA-based artists, community-driven projects, and interdisciplinary artists’ publishing practices from around the world.

LA Art Book Fair

The Geffen

Zolo Press

Rīga Confidential

Misako & Rosen, Tokyo present Fergus Feehily at Rīga Confidential

Opening: 21 June, 6-9 pm

Participant presentations: 22 July 12-4 pm

22 June - 30 July, 2023

Participating institutions: 427 (Rīga), Alma (Rīga), Artbeat (Tbilisi), Editorial (Vilnius), Green Gallery (Milwaukee), Kim? (Rīga), LambdaLambdaLambda (Prishtina), Misako & Rosen (Tokyo), Temnikova Kasela (Tallinn)

Artists: Tamar Botchorishvili, Fergus Feehily, Kristians Fukss, Richard Galling, Vedran Kopljar, Katy Cowan, Ieva-Kraule Kūna, Liudmila (Miša Skalskis un Milda Januševičiūte), Ieva Putniņa, Līva Rutmane, Anastasia Sosunova, Līga Spunde, Sigrid Viir, Elīna Vītola, Dardan Zhegrova

Rīga Confidential brings together international, experimental and established galleries as well as non-profit art institutions from the Baltics, Japan, the US, Kosovo and Georgia to introduce the Latvian art audience to new names from exciting regions and to activate Rīga’s contemporary art market.

Rīga Confidential is to serve as a meeting point for art institutions, artists and the public, informing and democratizing art sales activities and promoting forms of support for art institutions and artists. The day after the opening, we invite you to an event in which gallerists will present and talk about their spaces and the history thereof, as well as about decades of working side by side with their artists, tools for promoting artists’ careers, collaborations with local creative communities from Milwaukee, Pristina, Tallinn, Tokyo, Vilnius, and Riga, their challenges, difficulties and, of course, successes. At the same time, our guests will be introduced to Rīga’s contemporary art and culture scene, accompanied by visits to artists’ studios and meetings with art students.

The name Rīga Confidential alludes to the Onsen Confidential gallery and art space exchange project in Tokyo, inspired by precedents such as Milwaukee International, Paramount Ranch, Condo, OKEY DOKEY, Friend of a Friend, and Villa projects (Villa Warsaw, Villa Reykjavik and Villa Toronto), as well as non-profit initiatives such as NADA (New Art Dealers Alliance), Paris Internationale and gallery associations such as CADAN (Contemporary Art Dealers Association of Japan) and IGA (International Gallery Alliance).

Rīga Confidential

Collections of Things, La Maison de Rendez-Vous, Brussels

Please join us in Brussels on Wednesday June 7th, 6:00-9:00pm, At La Maison De Rendez-vous, For the launch and signing of Feehily's monograph, some artist editions, and a one-night show!

Oil, carpet tacks, acrylic, gesso, gouache, twigs, the occasional spray paint, pencil, dabs of watercolour, found photographs, found frames, bandages, a paper bag or two, screws, aluminium foil, sweet wrappers, scrap wood. The marginal meets in the paintings of Fergus Feehily (1968, Dublin, Ireland), paintings that themselves stand at the periphery of contemporary painterly conventions - Whose "subtle activity," as Martin Herbert observes, "Is On Its Way Somewhere Else, Drifting Out Of View." This book is the most comprehensive monograph on the artist to date. It brings into view more than one-hundred works made over more than 15 years alongside clippings, notes, and research material from the artist's archive as well as exhibitions staged from Aachen to Mexico City to Tokyo. Essays by Martin Herbert, curator Chris Sharp, and artist Sarah Braman celebrate Feehily's reminder of, as writes the latter, "the joy of just looking".

Beers by Illegaal Belgium

Zolo Press

La Maison De Rendez-vous

A. W., 41/42, Cornwall

Fergus Feehily has in recent years shown a certain reticence to in any sense explain his work and A.W., his new publication for 41/42, is no different. The publication was made over just a couple of weeks in early 2023, and includes paper works made by Feehily in the last couple of years, images from the artist’s collection, and makes reference to the artist Alfred Wallis, who lived in St Ives, Cornwall.

Fergus Feehily is an artist living in Berlin, Germany.

28 pages

14 x 20 cm b/w booklet

29.7 x 42 cm 2-sided colour sheet

First Edition of 30

2023

£10 + shipping

To purchase contact 4one4two@gmail.com

41/42

Fronts/Backs, Complex, Dublin

May 6 - May 26, 2023

Fergus Feehily, Glenn Fitzgerald, Sarah O’Brien, Tanad Aaron

Preview May 5, 18:00 - 20:00

"During my first meeting with Fergus, Glenn, and Sarah, I started with: 'I'm drawn to all three of you as artists because when I look at your paintings, they intensely trick me into thinking I can paint too'. In hindsight, I think I was alluding to the fact that all three artists make paintings using materials that are easily found and gathered, such as sweet wrappers, office prints, glue, household paint, tinfoil, zip lock bags, coloured paper, old frames, glitter, carpet underlay, cardboard, wood, screws, and various textiles. Encouraging a form of art-making through intuition as opposed to tradition. Paintings formed in such a way may be seen as "poor" in some cases.”

Curated by Mark O’Gorman

Complex